{"id":1581,"date":"2008-07-23T00:52:13","date_gmt":"2008-07-23T04:52:13","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-07-23T00:52:13","modified_gmt":"2008-07-23T00:52:13","slug":"benchmark-of-disdain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/benchmark-of-disdain\/","title":{"rendered":"Benchmark of Disdain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bqn038gkgEU?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nThe other night while washing dishes I turned on the radio, hoping to find a few good songs to play in the background. The local Oldies station was playing <strong>Gary Puckett &amp; the Union Gap<\/strong>&#8216;s &#8220;Lady Willpower&#8221;. Those of you who know me know that I despise that song &#8211; even while finding it unintentionally hilarious (a characteristic that usually carries a lot of weight with me). I quickly changed the station.<\/p>\n<p>I switched over to the local Classic Rock station, which was playing <strong>ZZ Top<\/strong>&#8216;s &#8220;Sharp Dressed Man&#8221;. That song makes me nauseous! There was nothing else on the radio. I couldn&#8217;t bear to go back to &#8220;Lady Willpower&#8221;, yet I had the chilling thought that I disliked the ZZ Top song more than the Gary Puckett song. I had identified my personal benchmark of disdain: to truly say I have disdain for a song, I must despise it more than &#8220;Lady Willpower&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>On a personal level, this is a powerful conclusion I thought I&#8217;d share. Perhaps you have identified your own benchmark of disdain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other night while washing dishes I turned on the radio, hoping to find a few good songs to play in the background. The local Oldies station was playing Gary Puckett &amp; the Union Gap&#8216;s &#8220;Lady Willpower&#8221;. Those of you who know me know that I despise that song &#8211; even while finding it unintentionally <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/benchmark-of-disdain\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1581"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}